README.md

OpenPension-website

OpenPension Website is the Web interface for the OpenPension Project
aimed at revealing the secrets behind the pension market.

Our stack

[NodeJS] 1
[ExpressJS] 2
[Marionette] 3
[Handlebars] 4
[Squel] 5
[PostgreSQL] 6
[Memcached] 7
[Elastic] 11

Also used

[Tabletop] 8

Getting Started

1. Clone the repo

   >git clone ...
   >git checkout marionette
   

2. Update submodules

   >git submodule init 
   >git submodule update
   

3. Install [NodeJS] 1

4. Install packages

   >npm install
   >npm install bower -g
   >bower install
   >npm install grunt -g
   >grunt
   

5. Update db connection string in server/config.json (ask somebody if you dont have it)

6. Run the server (default port is 3000)

   >node server/app.js 
   

7. To run the server in dev mode:

   Install node-dev (globally)

   >npm install node-dev -g
   

   Run the server

   >node-dev server/app.js
   

Additional Requirements

For compiling the packages on windows
you might need to install Microsoft Visual Studio
You can get the Express version which is free to download [here] 9

Online version

Visit: [http://www.openpension.org.il] 10